Making Moonta
Philip Payton
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Description for Making Moonta
Hardback. An investigation of the popular tradition of 'Australia's Little Cornwall': how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this identity into the twenty-first century. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Num Pages: 284 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 1MBFS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJM; HBLL; HBLW; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
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Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. An investigation of the popular tradition of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall’: how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this identity into the twenty-first century. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia’s northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighbouring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism centre. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major copper mining industry.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Exeter, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859897952
SKU
V9780859897952
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Ref
99-2
About Philip Payton
Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies, University of Exeter, and is Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University’s Cornwall campus. He has written widely on Cornwall and the Cornish; he is the author of A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (UEP, 2005, paperback 2007) and The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall’s Great ... Read more
Reviews for Making Moonta
‘Although academic in feel, this lavishly illustrated book is a highly readable account of the myth of “Little Cornwall”.’ (BBC Who do you think you are?, March 2008) ‘Detailed and sympathetic [...] this is a book to be savoured and treasured by anyone interested in the great phenomenon of Moont and Australia’s Little Cornwall, and in the Cornish diaspora in ... Read more